Lesia Vasylenko

Lesia Vasylenko is a member of the parliament of Ukraine of the IX Convocation. Her party Holos (voice or vote in Ukrainian) is the youngest opposition party in Parliament, liberal, democratic, and Promoters of European integration. In Parliament Mrs. Vasylenko sits on the Environmental Committee where she chairs the Subcommittee on Climate Change. At the outset of the escalation of russian aggression on 24 February 2022, MP Vasylenko’s strong international background allowed her to quickly become one of Ukraine's strongest voices on various international platforms. With an international law LLM from University College London and five years of running a veterans’ rights NGO Legal Hundred, Mrs. Vasylenko is well qualified to give both expert and political assessments of the developments in Ukraine.